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The festival was ex- pected to provide a major push for COPE’s fund-raising to help retire the outstanding debt and to begin work on the important 1988 cam- paign. TRIBUNE PHOTO — SEAN GRIFFIN TRIBUNE PHOTO — SEAN GRIFFIN Se Letters Support to halt PO privatization urged Marion Pollack, president, Vancouver local, Canadian Union of Postal Workers, writes: Once again the policies of the Tory government and Canada Post are coming under fire as the members of CUPW enter the final stages of negotiations with Canada Post Corporation. Despite the victory won by members of the Letter Carriers Union of Canada, the post office has not moved from either their demand for concessions or their plans to use scabs. Our negotiations with Canada Post are intensely political. We are challenging the Conservative drive towards privatization. In order to make the post office a better buy for their friends, the Tories have to break our union and reduce service levels. That is why the government is demanding over 80 concessions from us. These range from attacking our job security, contracting-out our work, doubling the numbers of part- timers at the expense of full-time jobs and weakening our seniority rights. The Conservative vision of the post office is one in which unions are weak and service is poor. The post office is already embark- ing on this road. They are not extending door-to-door delivery to new sub-divisions, they are closing down post offices in rural Canada and they want to get rid of 8,500 jobs in the next five years. Currently, our work is being contracted out. In Winnipeg, the corporation closed down a postal station and transferred all the work to a nearby drug store. Until May, 1987, in Vancouver, if you received a regis- tered letter or a parcel while you were out, you received a card telling you to go to the local postal station to pick it up. Now you have to go to a pharmacy or a dry cleaners to retrieve it. Our union has another vision of the post office. In this round of negotiations we are proposing a job creation/service expansion program. We want the post office to pro- vide better service. We believe that postal outlets should be open longer hours, should sell packaging materials and should provide bill paying service. We want the post office For all your travel needs, big or small. Let Globe Tours find the best way for you. GLOBE TOURS 2720 E. Hastings St. Vancouver, B.C. Phone: 253-1227 bs “Group parties of 15-25 welcome’! to contract in, not contract out our work And we are urging the post office to develop a large-scale expansion of parcel delivery service. The Conservatives are directing the nego- tiations. Our struggle is not that of a union fighting a specific employer but a union in direct conflict with the policies of the federal government. In order for our union to win, we have to challenge that government. That is why we need your support. Rather than negotiating fairly with us, the government is actively organizing and recruiting scabs to take our jobs. The solid- arity of other unions has been crucial in the past. We are asking for that again. Please do some of the following: @ Write a letter to Harvie Andre, minis- ter in charge of the post office. Tell him you want him to negotiate a fair settlement with CUPW. Tell him that, you want the post office to expand, not cut back service. Finally, tell him that you absolutely do not want your government to strikebreak. His address is: Harvie Andre, Minister in charge of the Post Office, Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Ontario. The letter does not require a stamp. Please send a copy of your letter to CUPW, Vancouver local, Box 2173, Van- couver, B.C. @ If we are forced to strike, please come and help on the picket line. The motto, “the longer the line, the shorter the strike”, will help us win. @ Invite one of our members to speak at your local meeting. 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